The walk through the garden starts in the rose garden and moves to the back garden with the pond, woodland garden, island beds and borders. Plants of note in the area are the Japanese Maple, Bloodgood, a Corckscrew Hazlenut, Harry Lauders Walking Stick and of course the roses.
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One side of the main roses garden is Hybrid Teas and the other is a mix of Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Grandifloras, Shrub roses, English roses and a Hybrid Pertpetual with a few Miniatures.

Rose Arbour and gravel path. The rocks are from a local highway project and the bricks are reclaimed from a chimney.

The roses arbour has benches on each side with two John Davis on either side and four Henry Kelsey on front and back.

The back border edges on the forest, in this corner surrounded by digitalis blooms is the Japanese Maple, bloodgood with an edging of magenta hardy Geraniums.

Japanese Maple, bloodgood

We call this the Peony garden, also in this bed are daylillies, potentilla, lavender and may other perennials. In the border behind the Peony Garden is the Showy Mountain Ash which has lovely red berries in the fall.

a new addition to the Peony garden is this bird bath made from a Salad bowl I found at a yard sale, set on an upturned brass plant stand it makes a nice feature.

This woodland garden was developed in 1997 and I continue to improve the plantings. The rocks used in edging and retaining walls are all from the property. The garden features a Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda Dogwood tree), two Viburnum trilobum (Higbush cranberry) bushes and two Viburnum lantana (Wayfaring tree) bushes.

Also incuded are many types of ferns, hostas, biennial and perenial digitalis, aquilegia, campanula, dianthus, japaneses iris, primroses and alchemilla (ladys mantle).

The concrete bench makes a good resting place to enjoy this peacful spot and watch the birds.

The patio is bordered by the pond garden and water fall and a mixed bed with the Corylus avellana, Contorta, (Harry Lauders Walking Stick).

The pond was constructed in 1996, I dug the hole by hand in hard clay and lined it with old carpet underlay and a 45 ml rubber liner. This is take in spring of 2001.

The stairs were constructed in 2000 with concrete pavers and recycled bricks. The small annual border fills in with snapdragons and petunias.

At the front of the house there is a rock wall planter which I built with local stone. It is planted with impatiens and lobelia the same as the small bed below. There are four different clematis growing on the support posts.

The most recent addition to my garden is this area we call the Secret Garden. There are numerous shade loving shrubs on the east side with columbine and annuals to fill the space until the shurbs mature. The side next to the house is filled with Hostas, many varities of Columbine, Astilbe, Tradescantia and Ladys Mantle. There is a border of lobelia with impatiens and coleus mixed in with the perennials.

this little fairy statue was a gift from my family think it looks perfect nestled among the hostas, ladys mantle and bleeding heart with the blue fescue grass in front.

the copper arch was made by my husband and is a perfect support for the vigorous, summer blooming rose Polar Star, and the two Captain Samuel Holland repeat blooming roses. The path leads to the vegetable garden and two small greenhouses. The herb garden to the right of the arbor is my daughters. Feature plants in the herb garden are potted rosemary, bay, lemon verbena and many kinds of tyme. She recently found a Vanilla grass and a Lemon grass which are in pots at the sides of the step.

the front border was the first area I developed and has undergone many changes over the years. I continue to search for plants that will adapt to the mostly clay soil and of course roses are rapidly filling in the holes. There are many new roses here that are just starting to bloom this year.

a difficult site next to a mature birch tree led to the development of this little apline garden. More rocks from the property anchor the garden.

this former whiskey barrell and a cracked bird bath are home to numerous petunias

this brass ash tray became a fountain which the birds love to drink from

this bench is a nice place to enjoy the front garden. The small rose garden is called Mandys garden after our beloved Airedale Terrier who loved to sit on the mound of top soil that used to be on this spot.

this little green house is filled to overflowing every spring so I added a second greenhouse in 2001.

the two greenhouses viewed through the copper arbor. There are four of these square metal boxes that I found at a yard sale and planted with fountain grass.

looking back through the copper arch you can see the main rose garden. The brass fireplace screen is another yard sale find.

I enjoy making hypertufa containers like this trough filled with alpine plants

this grouping includes an antique ladder with an old enamel bowl full of nasturtiums, an old wooden box from my family farm and an antique enamel kettle now used as a small water garden with a dwarf papayrus, water hyancinth and fairy moss.

I make four moss baskets like this one for shade and one for sun each year.

aquilegia and digitalis are among my favorite flowers and I have numerous varities of both scattered throughout the gardens

a found table sports a coat of purple paint and holds an old enamel bowl of fantasy petunias, brachycome and verbena